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  1. ruse
    a deceptive maneuver, especially to avoid capture
  2. artifice
    the use of deception or trickery
  3. culpability
    a state of guilt
  4. foible
    a minor weakness or peculiarity in someone's character
  5. sycophancy
    fawning obsequiousness
  6. irresolute
    uncertain how to act or proceed
  7. mundane
    found in the ordinary course of events
  8. equivocal
    open to two or more interpretations
  9. deplorable
    bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
  10. superficial
    of, affecting, or being on or near the surface
  11. esoteric
    understandable only by an enlightened inner circle
  12. quixotic
    not sensible about practical matters
  13. bombastic
    ostentatiously lofty in style
  14. pedestrian
    lacking wit or imagination
  15. ephemeral
    anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day
Created on Sun Oct 20 22:38:18 EDT 2013

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